Flushing-closet.



PATBNTED APR. z, 1907'.

ATTORNEY s E. T. WEBSTER.

VFLUSHING', CLUSET. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26, 1906.

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EDWARD T. WEBSTER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

FLusHlNe-CLOSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed February 26,1906. Serial No. 302,844.

.To all whom t may concern;

Be it known that I, EDWARD T. WEBSTER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Flushing-Olosets, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in closets, and it pertains moreespecially to the means employed for covering up the horizontal metallicpipe connections which communicate between the closet-bowl and thevertical wall against which the rear -end of the closet abuts.

It is a well-known fact that water-closets are usually located at ashort distance from the wall of a room and that short horizontal pipeconnections are required to communicate between them and the verticalinlet water-pipes which are located either within or on the exteriorsurface of the wall. As these horizontal pipe connections in modern openplumbing are exposed to view, it has heretofore been necessaryT forbetter class of work to plate and highly finish them.

The object of my present invention is to provide a closet of suchconstruction that the pipe connections in the space between thecloset-howl proper and the wall of the room will be covered up and areentirely obscured from view, whereby I am not only enabled to use acheaper grade of pipe connections between the bowl and water-pipes, but

owing to the fact that all pipe connections are obscured from viewthecloset when installed will present a much neater and more finishedappearance, while the necessity of forming a water-tight joint betweenthe rear end of the pipe connections and the wall is avoided.

The construction of my invention is eX- plained by reference to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the closetwith pipe connections and inclosing sleeve, shown in vertical section.Fig. 2 is a rear view. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the pipe connec-vtions and inclosing sleeve, and Fig. 4 is a modified form.

Like parts are identified by the same reference figures throughout theseveral views.

1 represents the bowl of a closet 2, the vertical inlet water-pipe,which may be located either within the wall, as shown in Fig. 1, or uponthe rear surface, as shown in Fig. 4.

3 represents the wall; 4, the horizontal metallic pipe connections,taken as a whole, which communicate between the vertical pipe 2 and thebowl 1.

5 represents a horizontal sleeve which incloses the pipe connectionsbetween the bowl 1 and the wall 8. The sleeve 5 is not only made ofsufiicient length to cover the entire space between the bowl 1 and thewall 3, but ample space is provided around the pipe connections 4 withinthe sleeve for inserting the packing and packing-nuts and for insertinga wrench when coupling or uncoupling such parts.

6 represents that part of the metallic pipe connection which is rigidlysecured to the bowl at the inner end of the sleeve 5 by the clamping-nut7, or by cement, or in any other convenient manner. 8 represents thatpart of the pipe connection which communicates between the connection 6and the vertical inlet water-pipe 2 through the elbow 9. The parts 6 and8 are connected together with an ordinary screw-threaded union 10.I/Vith the ordinary closet as heretofore constructed all that part ofthe pipe connections between the clamping-nut 7 and the verticalinletpipe 2 have been formed outside of the closet proper and for thisreason have been eX- posed to view.

By my improvements all such parts of the pipe connections which arelocated between the clamping-nut 7 and the wall 3 are entirely coveredup and obscured from view by the inclosing sleeve 5. To facilitateconnecting the closet with the vertical inlet-pipe 2, an opening 11 ispreferably formed on the lower side of the sleeve 5 between the bowl 1and the wall 3, as shown in the preferred forms l to 8, inclusive,whereby the coupling nuts of the union 10 may be readily reached whendesired to connect the closet with or disconnect it from the inletwater-pipes. When, however, the closets are so located that access withthe pipe connections may be readily reached from the rear side of thewall 3, as indicated in Fig. 4, the opening 11,

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formed on the lower side of the sleeve 5, may

be dispensed with and the couplings may be reached through the rear endof said sleeve 5, the space within the sleeve 5 being such 'as to permitof easy access to the couplings from its rear end.

It will of course be understood that the sleeve which is employed tocover up the horizontal metallic pipe connections between the bowl andthe verti cal inlet-pipes may be used in connection with all the variousstyles and makes of closets, whether Jformed of metal or earthenware.

It will be understood that owing to the v fact that the inletwater-pipes are connected 1. The combination with a ilushing-closet'provided with a rearwardly-extending pipeinclosing sleeve adapted toclose the space between said closet and abut against an adjacent wall,of a horizontal metallic pipe connection having a closefjoint with saidcloset within and at the inner end of said sleeve, whereby the necessityof Jforming a close joint between the rear end of said pipeinclosingsleeve and an adjacent wall is avoided. V

2. The combination with a flushing-closet provided with arearwardly-extending pipe inclosing sleeve adapted to close the spacebetween said closet and abut against an adj acent wall, said sleevebeing provided upon its lower side with an opening through which thecouplings of the pipe connections therein may be reached from below,said sleeve being adapted to close the space between the bowl of thecloset and the adjacent wall and 0bscure the horizontal pipe connectionsfrom view.

3. The combination with a flushing-closet provided with arearwardly-extending sleeve adapted to close the space between saidcloset and an adjacent wall of a metallic pipe connection communicatingdirectly with the closet through said sleeve, whereby the necessity offorming a close joint between the rear end of said sleeve and such wallis avoided.

In testimony whereot` I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

EDWARD T. WEBSTER.

Vitnesses:

Jas. B. EnwrN, O. R. ERwIN.

